Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Historical and Juridical: With Observations Upon the Ordinary Provisions of State Constitutions and a Comparison with the Constitutions of Other Countries, Volume 1Boston Book Company, 1896 - 713 pages |
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... civil and religious liberty for themselves , to extend them to those of another and despised race , and now to combine them with the rights to un- governed labor and complete security for private property . Dry as the account must be in ...
... civil and religious liberty for themselves , to extend them to those of another and despised race , and now to combine them with the rights to un- governed labor and complete security for private property . Dry as the account must be in ...
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... civil war broke out pretence whatever . ' When this is compared with the clear and explicit provision in the Constitution , by which it is declared that the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of ...
... civil war broke out pretence whatever . ' When this is compared with the clear and explicit provision in the Constitution , by which it is declared that the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of ...
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... Civil War could have never been restored without a decimation of the leaders of the revolt . The national and State legislatures would have the power of taking property without due process of law ; and credit would have been ruined by ...
... Civil War could have never been restored without a decimation of the leaders of the revolt . The national and State legislatures would have the power of taking property without due process of law ; and credit would have been ruined by ...
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... civil war made England abandon them to their own resources . Even then , the New England Confederation of 16431 was too nar- row for the admission of Rhode Island ; was unable to always obtain the obedience to its requisitions by ...
... civil war made England abandon them to their own resources . Even then , the New England Confederation of 16431 was too nar- row for the admission of Rhode Island ; was unable to always obtain the obedience to its requisitions by ...
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... civil law.5 The common law had been the subject of their deepest study , of the structure of that famous league . A number of the members of the Con- vention were graduates of American colleges ; but at that time the cur- riculum of ...
... civil law.5 The common law had been the subject of their deepest study , of the structure of that famous league . A number of the members of the Con- vention were graduates of American colleges ; but at that time the cur- riculum of ...
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Page 371 - Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury which shall be supplied by the several states in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any person as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated, according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled shall, from time to time, direct and appoint.
Page 285 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common Judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 283 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties, appertaining to them.
Page 206 - Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 370 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Page 8 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 84 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary.
Page 285 - That to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-states forming as to itself, the other party : That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Page 66 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 370 - ... in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any Person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated according to such mode as the united states in congress assembled, shall from time to time direct and appoint.